--- title: Cool Fake Cheap Volumetric Lights Solution For Unity description: A 3D artist presents a cheap solution for faking volumetric lighting in Unity using cubes and a custom unlit transparent material made with Shader Graph on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cool-fake-cheap-volumetric-lights-solution-for-unity-dffs4kjw0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cool Fake Cheap Volumetric Lights Solution For Unity | daily.dev og:description: A 3D artist presents a cheap solution for faking volumetric lighting in Unity using cubes and a custom unlit transparent material made with Shader Graph on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cool-fake-cheap-volumetric-lights-solution-for-unity-dffs4kjw0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DFFs4kjw0.png og:image:alt: Cool Fake Cheap Volumetric Lights Solution For Unity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cool Fake Cheap Volumetric Lights Solution For Unity **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A 3D artist presents a cheap solution for faking volumetric lighting in Unity using cubes and a custom unlit transparent material made with Shader Graph on URP. 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